Only 6.5 percent of homes are landline only, while 3.2 percent remain phone-free.
For the first time, a majority of households, and of US adults in general, say that they have a mobile phone as their only phone, according to a new survey from the US Centers for Disease Control's health statistics research department.
According to LiveScience, adults between the ages of 25 and 34 are the most common inhabitants of cellphone-only households. The number of households that do not have a landline rose by 2.5% from 2015 to 2016. Adults with children were more likely to drop the landline compared to households of multiple adults without children. Most recently, the CDC found that 60.7-percent of kids (that is to say, teenagers mostly) have only mobile phones where as the figure drops to 50.5-percent when looking at adults specifically. Less than 30% of people in this age range have a landline, the survey found. And the majority of wireless-only households (83.7 percent) are unrelated adults living together with no children. "There certainly is something about giving up a landline that appeals to the same people who may engage in risky behavior".
As Fortune notes, landlines are the first example of mass-market cord-cutting, but all the pointers suggest that cable TV is next in line.
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She speculated that one reason may be a landline offers a sense of security.
Of course, it was only a matter of time.
Landlines are also more reliable in emergencies. Telemarketers can also be sent straight to the answering machine.
"There's this idea of, well, my cellphone could go out, I can always rely on a landline", Schwind said. Have you ditched the landline yet? Let us know if you have and how long did so in the comments!
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